The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job. With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors. But her new life isn't easy and on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist and loveable good Teddy Butt - a ragtag law enforcement officer by night and a body builder by day. Can Alice and Teddy live happily ever after? Can the hospital survive? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Kerachi where the unusual is ordinary.

General Information

ISBN : 9780099516750
Publisher : Penguin Random House
Imprint : Vintage
Weight (g) : 0.17
Publication date : 30 September 2012
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : 01 December 2012
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : Mohammed Hanif
Bind : Paperback
Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.92
Pages : 240

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The glorious new novel from the author of the internationally acclaimed, bestselling A Case of Exploding Mangoes

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Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan, in 1965. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. He has written plays for the stage and BBC radio, and his film The Long Night has been shown at film festivals around the world. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel in 2008.